vbaicu / ipstack

Simple ip location api for nodejs based on ipstack.com

Ipstack api wrapper for nodejs

Simple ip geolocation api based on ipstack.com

Install

You need to get you're api key from here: https://ipstack.com/signup/free and you'll get 10k free requests/month

npm install --save ipstack

Usage

const ipstack = require('ipstack')

ipstack("8.8.8.8","<your ipstack api key>",(err, response) => {
  console.log(response)
})

Example output

{ ip: '8.8.8.8',
  type: 'ipv4',
  continent_code: 'NA',
  continent_name: 'North America',
  country_code: 'US',
  country_name: 'United States',
  region_code: null,
  region_name: null,
  city: null,
  zip: null,
  latitude: 37.751,
  longitude: -97.822,
  location:
   { geoname_id: null,
     capital: 'Washington D.C.',
     languages: [ [Object] ],
     country_flag: 'http://assets.ipstack.com/flags/us.svg',
     country_flag_emoji: '🇺🇸',
     country_flag_emoji_unicode: 'U+1F1FA U+1F1F8',
     calling_code: '1',
     is_eu: false } }

ipstack's Issues

Error: getaddrinfo ENOENT api.ipstack.com

If the domain doesn't resolve, the error is not caught.

Fix explained here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21662619/how-to-catch-getaddrinfo-enotfound

var getRequest = _http.get(options, function(res) {
// …
});
getRequest.on('error', function (err) {
console.log(err);
});

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